Oscars 2016 Funniest Moments

The 10 Funniest Moments From The Oscars

Leo DiCaprio finally got his Oscar, Spotlight won Best Picture, Sam Smith and Mark Rylance flew the flag for us Brits, and Mad Max: Fury Road roared off with six awards. Yes, the Academy Awards hoopla is over for another year. Here are the ceremony’s top 10 gags…

Keeping up with the Smiths

"Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties – I wasn't invited. You can't boycott something nobody invited you to… I understand Jada’s mad that her man Will [pictured here at the NAACP Image Awards] was this good and didn’t get nominated. But if she wants it to be all about merit, can we complain about the $20 million he got for Wild Wild West?”

Rights and wrongs

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"This whole 'no black nominees' thing has happened at least 71 other times. You gotta figure it happened in the '50s, in the '60s… and black people did not protest. Why? Because we had real things to protest about at the time. We were too busy getting lynched to care about who won Best Cinematographer. When your grandmother's swinging from the tree, it's really hard to care about Best Documentary Short.”

Clooney tunes

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“You’re not allowed to ask women what they’re wearing any more. But not everything’s sexism. Not everything’s racism. They ask the men different questions because they’re all wearing the exact same thing. If George Clooney came in a lime-green tux with a swan coming out of his ass, they’d say, ‘What are you wearing George?’”